While plans are moving forward with the second phase of Ross Clark Circle improvements, the $28 million needed to fund most of the project isn’t officially free to use, one of the city’s lobbyists said Tuesday.

Attorneys for a former Dothan police officer involved in a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city claim the mayor’s payment of customer referral fees from his auto dealership to the city’s Equal Employment Officer could constitute a conflict of interest.

Wiregrass legislators have filed a handful of pre-filed bills for the upcoming legislative session, including one that would criminalize intentionally inflating military accomplishments or lying about military service.

Below is the agenda for the regularly scheduled meeting of the Dothan City Commission, set for Tuesday, March 3, at 10 a.m. in the commission chambers of the Dothan Civic Center. For more information, please click on the hyperlink under each item.

TUSCALOOSA (AP) — The president of the local chapter of the NAACP is asking the Tuscaloosa City Council to consider regulating air guns as a way of preventing possible mistaken-identity shootings of children.

GADSDEN — Roads crusted with icy slush left over from as much as a foot of snow made travel dangerous across north Alabama early Thursday, but forecasters said temperatures should rise enough to melt away many of the problems.

A lawsuit has been filed in federal court against the former Ozark fire chief, an Ozark emergency dispatcher, along with the City of Ozark and the E-911 Board in connection to the timing of the emergency help provided to an Ozark man involved in a 4-wheeler accident in 2013.

According to the Federal Communication Commission, 35 percent of Alabamians don’t have access to fixed broadband service that keeps up with today’s modern needs with use of voice, data, graphics and video offerings commonly used on the web.

The Alabama State Department of Education phased out graduation exams and replaced them with end-of-course assessments a few years ago. Now many local school systems are phasing out these tests as well.

Staff Sgt. Brandon Bagwell has been deployed several times to serve in the nation’s wars with Iraq and Afghanistan. Each homecoming has been relatively normal, but this one would be his last and he wanted to do something memorable for himself and his 14-year-old son, Braidden.